▶ 65:00 · $SOUTH-PARK-COMMONS · Adichal: SPC Fund 4 at $575M mirrors founder ambition shift to hard tech (nuclear, semiconductors, energy)

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SpaceX SPV Gone Wrong, Intel's Comeback, Meta Releases Coding Agent, Dylan Field Joins

2026-08-06 · 13 company · 28 thematic

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adichal

Managing partner of South Park Commons, a community and venture fund backing ambitious technical founders; recently raised $575M Fund 4 to pursue hard tech (nuclear, semiconductors, energy).

arian

CEO of Expedia Group since 2013; previously at Microsoft; leading AI integration across travel search, recommendations, and internal engineering productivity.

nick thompson

CEO of The Atlantic (subscription media); previously at Wired and The New Yorker; navigating Google Zero, print retention, and AI's impact on journalism business models.

chris power

CEO of Hadrian, building factories-as-a-service for defense and advanced manufacturing; raised $37M; ex-Palantir; focuses on full-stack automated production for missiles, drones, and humanoid robotics.

christian motion

Founder of Atlas Motion, building motion system stack for Western autonomous systems; ex-Toyota, Tesla (Gigafactory Texas), Shield AI, Mock Industries; raised $11.5M seed led by Greycraft.

dylan field

Co-founder and CEO of Figma. Led company through failed Adobe acquisition, now launching AI design agents. Advocates design as differentiator as code commoditizes. Focus on human-AI collaboration canvas.

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“Ultimately what's happening is that we're going through a period where everybody at South Park Commons and I think more broadly across the ecosystem is just getting a lot more ambitious right... Let's go out and build nuclear powered ships…”

—adichal

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